Word: slenderness
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...taut-faced, middleaged, were J. L. Scott and Dan Casey of Toledo and Lawrence Crampton of Dayton. The boy, least nervous of the four, was Alfred Rufus King Jr. of Wichita Falls, son of famed Marksman Rufus A. King, 1921 winner of the Governor's cup. Short and slender for his 14 years, he looked out of place beside his competitors as they went out to shoot 25 birds to decide the tie. A handicap in trapshooting is sometimes given in score, but usually in yards. At Vandalia, while 8,000 people stirred with excitement, young King shot...
Army. To tall, slender, handsome Maj.-General Douglas MacArthur, 50, youngest of first-rank officers, the President gave the appointment of Chief of Staff for a four-year tour of duty. With the job goes the courtesy rank of full general (four silver shoulder stars, a salute of 17 guns). Soldierly son of a Civil War father (Lieut.-General Arthur MacArthur), the new Chief was born in barracks at Little Rock, Ark., went to West Point as soon as he could. There he was senior-year (1903) cadet-captain, popular, a baseball adept. Graduated into the Corps of Engineers...
...east coast of Africa opportunity to feast his visiting compatriots, and Consul Speiser made the most of it. In Tanga Herr Speiser prepared a huge banquet for the officers of the Karlsruhe, invited all Tanga's remaining German colonists, piled the long table with a little forest of slender Rhine wine bottles...
...advertising, from its extreme use of the testimonial technique to its famed "Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet"-a slogan deplored by conservative advertising men, resented by the candy & sugar industries, rebuked by the Federal Trade Commission. The current American Tobacco Co. campaign, still associating cigarets with slender figures, is built around the catch line of "avoiding that future shadow," pictures trim and athletic youth casting a fat and flaccid middle-aged shadow. Monstrous indeed are the shadows in the Lucky Strike series, almost out of all human proportion. Yet while Camel cigarets have advertised smoking pleasure, while...
...Fletcher, one of the most popular. English detective story writers. The volume contains twenty-one thrilling tales, each one a miniature novel packed with swift action and suspense. In the title story a man in the vestibule of a through express looks casually at his watch, and from that slender clue the police, build up a case which hangs a murderer. Another of the stories, "The Button and the Bank Note", explains how Detective Sergeant Hubbertson solved a murder which had puzzled the London police because he happened to sit next to a nervous young man in a tea shop...